Building a model of integration of urban sharing and public transport services

Abstract

The intense growth of cities affects their inhabitants to a considerable extent. The issues facing the traveling population include congestion and growing harmful emissions. Urban transport requires changes towards eco‐friendly solutions. However, even though new forms of traveling (sharing services) are being implemented, their integration with public transport remains problem-atic. On account of the large number of available services combined with the absence of their inte-gration, city inhabitants are faced with the dilemma of choosing between one or several transport modes which would enable them to make the given trip. The main goal of this article is to propose a model for integration of different transport services which could support those who intend to travel in the decision‐making process. Therefore, the parameters of a model of urban sharing services were identified and classified. The parameters discussed in the paper with reference to an extensive literature review describe how individual sharing services are functioning. What has also been identified is the location‐specific factors as well as those related to the potential area of opera-tion which affect the integration with public transport. In order to take all the relevant parameters into account and find a solution to the problem at hand, a multi‐criteria decision‐making approach has been proposed. To this end, scores and weights determining their impact on the model have been established. For purposes of the solution in question, the relevant calculations were conducted by referring to an actual need to travel between selected locations.